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Teaching comprehensive sex education in public schools can be a challenge. You’re dealing with students from all sorts of backgrounds and families. Parents will opt out if they don’t think the program reflects their personal values, students will be uncomfortable and shut down if they feel out of place. Ayesha Akhtar saw this need for culturally sensitive health education and developed HEART Women & Girls with Nadiah Mohajir. They teach workshops to public school girls primarily with Muslim backgrounds.
In our conversation, Ayesha details some of the rifts between generations of Muslim-Americans when it comes to understanding what problems school aged girls deal with every day and how Muslim tradition is very open to education, specifically about bodies and health.
